Ticket printing and issuing machines



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july 25, 1961 Filed Jan. 15, 1958 INVENTORS SYDNEY GEORGE MARSHALLROBERT MILBURN REGINALD WILLIAM ARTHUR HANSON ATTORNEYS July 25, 1961 S.G. MARSHALL ETAL TICKET PRINTING AND ISSUING MACHINES Filed Jan. 15,1958 Fig.2.

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IN VEN TOR S SYDNEY GEORGE MARSHALL ROBERT MILBURN REGINALD WILLIAMARTHUR HANSON ATTOQ/VEYS July 25, 1961 I Filed Jan. 15, 1958 S. GMARSHALL ET AL TICKET PRINTING AND ISSUING MACHINES Fzg4.

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TICKET PRINTING AND ISSUING MACHINES Filed Jan. 15, 1958 7 Sheets-Sheet6 lA/l/ENTOES SYDNEY GEORGE MARSHALL- ROBERT MILBURN REGINALD WILLIAMARTHUR HANSON BY PM WM%UMA1I\TILTCV A TTORNE Y5 July 25, 1961 s. G.MARSHALL ETAL 2,993,435

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A N D MISSED PRINT/N6 0F F //?5T LE 6 NUMBER PRINTING OF PACE" CODINGAND PERMANENT TICKET MATTER MISSED b/REC 7/ ON OF POT/4 T/ON 2 CYCLE ENDTICKET EJECT/ON l CYCLE ENDS "DOUBLES, "RACE- MISSED PRTNT/NG 0F 4NDSECOND LEG NUMBER, DATE COD/N6 AND PERMANENT TICKET MATTER {NI/E/VTORSSYDNEY GEORGE MARSHALL ROBERT MlLBURN REGINAL WILLIAM ARTHUR HANSON BYPM W 1 ATTORNEYS United States Patent 6 TICKET PRINTING AND ISSUDNGMACHINES Sydney George Marshall, Robert Milburn, and Reginald WilliamArthur Hanson, London, England, assignors to Bell Punch Company Limited,London, England, a

British company Filed Ian. 15, 1958, Ser. No. 709,053 4 Claims. (Cl.101-66) This invention is for improvements in or relating to ticketprinting and issuing machines.

The object of the present invention is to provide a ticket printing andissuing machine, particularly adapted for employment with totalisatorequipment, which will print certain letterpress matter common to alltickets issued by the machine and which will print on each ticketnumbers which will vary in accordance with the selector key or selectorkeys depressed, such numbers corresponding, for example, to competitorsin a race.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ticket printing andissuing machine by means of which it is possible to print a ticket,bearing data relating to a combination of contestants in a single raceor in two races, in two separate phases, issuance of the ticket takingplace after the second printing phase is completed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ticket printing andissuing machine wherein the two separate printing phases are initiatedby means of depression of any two keys or of two successive depressionsof a single key of one set of keys.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ticket printing andissuing machine wherein the issuance of a ticket printed in the saidmachine in two separate phases is recorded at some time during thesecond printing phase, and specifically at the end of the secondprinting phase.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a ticketprinting and issuing machine for employment in any form of betting whichemploys a multiplicity of combinations. There are many forms which suchbetting can take:

Forecast betting.In Forecast betting the person making the bet has toforecast which two out of all com petitors in a race will finish firstand second, respectively.

Quinella betting.-In Quinella betting the person making the bet has toforecast or choose those two competitors which will be placed, in hisopinion, first and second in the race regardless of the order in whichthe said two competitors pass the winning post.

Field betting.In Field betting a named runner number is coupled with allother runners in a Forecast event or a named runner number in the firstleg of a Doubles event with all runners in the second leg (namely, thefield) and vice versa.

Doubles betting.-In Doubles betting the person making the bet has toforecast which two competitors in two separate races will win the saidtwo races.

Machines of the general construction to which the present inventionrelates have been very fully described and illustrated in, for example,United Kingdom patent specifications No. 325,873, No. 330,264 and No.332,942

and in three corresponding United States patent specifications No.1,886,626, No. 1,886,769 and No. 2,020,594 and therefore such a machinewill not be describeder illustrated in as much detail as would be thecase if these earlier specifications did not exist. However, whilst mostbut not all of the old mechanism is both described and illustratedherein, all mechanism in the machine which is the subject of the presentinvention which difiers from that described and illustrated in the saidearlier specifications will be described in such detail as is considerednecessary to understand completely the operationof the machine.

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The present invention will now be described with reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a side elevation view of the left hand side of the machinewith the side cover plate removed;

FIGURE 2 is a side elevation view of the machine from the left hand sidethereof, illustrating those parts which are driven by the driveillustrated in FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 3 is a side elevation view from the right hand side of themachine with-the side cover plate re,- moved;

FIGURE 4 is a rear elevation view of the machine with the rear coverplate removed;

FIGURE 5 is a plan view of the machine with the top plate removed;

FIGURE 6 represents diagramatically and in perspective the ticketfeeding and printing mechanism and mechanism ancillary thereto; and

FIGURE 7 illustrates the cam by means of which the printing operationsare controlled.

Referring to the drawings, there is illustrated a ticket printing andissuing machine comprising a base plate 1, side plates 2 and 3, aremovable front plate 4, a back plate 5 and a two-part top plate 6. Adoor 7 with a handle 8 is provided at the front of the machine below thefront plate 4, the said door 7 being hingedly mounted at 9 to one of theframe members of the machine. Some of the plates hereinbefore mentionedare either secured to such frame members whilst others are suspendedupon rods which extend across the machine and which are mounted upon orin the frame members. It will be understood that the machine is composedof a plurality of vertical and horizontal frame struts or members, whichare secured to each other, and frame plates secured to the said framestruts, but these are not further specifically described herein.

A motor 10, for example a 50-volt DC. motor, is mounted in any desiredmanner in the machine. Preferably the said motor is mounted within theouter casing or plates at the back of the machine and is secured byscrews, bolts or the like to a plate 11 which is secured in turn to apair of motor mounting plates 12 and 13 (FIGURE 4)..

The output shaft of the motor .10 is provided with .a pinion 14(FIGURE 1) which meshes with a gear wheel 15 with which there isassociated a pinion 16, the gear wheel 15 and the pinion 16 rotating asa unit. The pinion 16 meshes with a gear wheel 17 'to'whichthere issecured a pinion 18 which is connected by means of a driving cycle chain19 to a clutch sprocket 20 rigidly connected to .a sprocket wheel 20awhich is mounted in the machine adjacent an arm which is keyed toa-printing head spindle 21 (FIGURE 2). A tension'sprocket 22 is mountedupon an arm or other support 23, the tension sprocket being capable ofrotating freely about the axis of the pivot thereof and being providedfor the purpose .of

taking up any slack in the driving chain 19. 1

Rigidly mounted upon the printing head spindle 21 (FIGURE 2) is a gearwheel 24 meshing with a gear wheel 25 which is mounted for rotation inthe machine upon -a layshaft '26. The gear wheel 25 carries upon oneface thereof a pin 27 which is so mounted upon the :said gear wheel asto engage (as illustrated) one slot of a Geneva wheel 28. The Genevawheel is mounted at one end of 'a short shaft 29, at the other end ofwhich there;is secured a gear wheel 30 meshing with a pinion 31 which iscoaxial with and adjacent to a second pinion 32, the pinion 32 alwaysrotating with the pinion 31 when the pinion 31 is driven by the gearwheel 3.0. The pinion 32 meshes with a pinion 33 (FIGURES 2 and '4)which is coaxial with a pair of knurled discs 34 and 35 (:FIGURESZ and6) these two knurled discs each being provided with a A ticket-pulpguide 37, which is constructed as two separate portions hereinafterreferred to as the upper discs 34 and 35 to grip the ticket pulp at thedesired time.

Mounted on the layshaft 26 is -a pressure roller cam 41 (FIGURE 1)against the circumference of which there is :arranged to bear acam-follower roller 42 carried at one end of a cranked rocker arm 43which is urged at all times in an anti-clockwise direction (as seen inFIGURE 1) by a spring 44. The pressure roller cam '41 is provided withthree portions 45, 46 and 47 which are of reduced diameter and when,during one revolution of the said cam as hereinafter described, therocker arm 43 rocks about the axis of its pivot rod 48, such rockingmovement is made possible by the provision of an arcuate slot 49 formedin the upper half of the cranked rocker arm 43.

A solenoid indicated generally by 50 has a horizontally disposed lever51 secured to the plunger thereof at approximately the mid-point of thelever 51, and the said lever 51 is so mounted as to bear upon a knifeedge or other contact surface indicated as to general position by 52 ormay be alternatively pivotally mounted upon a spindle. The front end ofthe lever 51 :has one end of a strong spring 53 anchored thereto, theother end of the spring being anchored to the framework of the machineor to the solenoid assembly, and the rear end of the lever 51 hassecured thereto a catch member 54. A clutch trip plate 55, which ismounted for rocking movement about a spindle 56, when in the restposition thereof bears against the catch member 54 (FIGURE 1) at theedge of a cut-away portion 57 under the influence exerted by a spring 58which is anchored at one end to an arm 59 secured to or integral withthe framework of the machine and at the other end thereof to a pin 60 orany other convenient means carried by the contact trip plate 55. A knifeswitch 61 is mounted upon the spindle 56 at that side of the machinewhich is remote from the clutch trip "plate 55, the said knife switchbeing operable to bridge a pair of contacts 62 and 63 in order to startthe motor 10. The knife switch 61 is also provided at the rear endthereof with an arm 64 which is provided at the upper end thereof with acam follower 65 which takes the form of a pin, the said cam followerbeing arranged to bear against a motor switch cam 66 which is mountedupon the step 72 which, when the said plate 55 is in its position ofrest, engages an arm 73 which is keyed to the spindle 21 and whichcarries a pivotally mounted spring-urged catch 74, the arrangement beingsuch that when the motor is running and when the clutch trip plate 55rocks in a clockwise direction about the spindle 56 as seen in FIGURE 1,the catch 74 is urged by the spring thereof (not illustrated) in aclockwise direction about the axis of its pivot (not illustrated) inorder that a tooth (not illustrated) on the catch 74 will engage thesprocket wheel 20a and thereby ensure rotation of the printing headspindle 21. This ar rangement of parts has been fully described ingreater detail in United Kingdom patent specification No. 325,873 andUnited States patent specification No. 1,886,626 and will not,therefore, be described further here.

The ticket printing and issuing machine described above is provided witha plurality of manually depressible keys 75 each of which is pivotallymounted upon a spindle 76 and each of which is held in the position ofrest thereof by a spring 77. Each key is formed with two abutments 78and 79 arranged respectively above and below the axis of the spindle 76which, when the key is depressed, are moved into the path of movement ofsetting bars 80 and 81 which are always urged towards one another by aspring or the like. The setting bars 80 and 8 1 rotate about the axes ofspindles 82 and 83, respectively. Further, in order to prevent more thanone key at a time being .depressed, a row of balls 84 is arrangedadjacent the underside of the plurality of keys 75 so as to provide atotal free space between all the balls equal to the thickness of theshank of any one key. Mechanism is provided Whereby the setting bars 80and 81 are returned to the positions of rest thereof. Such mechanismcomprises a cam 85 on the printing head spindle 21, a roller 86 carriedby an arm 87 pivotally mounted in the machine at 88, a pair of links 89and 90 each connected to the arm 87 at one end thereof and each formedwith a bifurcated portion at the other end thereof. The bifurcatedportion of the link 90 is seen clearly in FIGUREZ, indicated by 91', thesaid bifurcated portion 91 engaging a pin 92 on a short link 93 securedto the setting bar 81. 'The link 89 is provided with a similarbifurcated portion engaging a pin on a short link secured to the settingbar 80 but these parts have not been specifically indicated. Themechanism de scribed above in outline has been very fully described andillustrated in the various patent specifications referred 'to in theopening part of the present description and it is which is so disposedas to engage, when the key is depressed, one arm of a bell crank lever101 which is mounted for rocking movement about a spindle 102. When thekey 75 is depressed, the cam engages the bell crank lever 101 and rocksthe said lever 101 in a clockwise direction as viewed in FIGURE 2,thereby making the pair of contacts generally indicated by 103.

Referring to FIGURE 6 of the drawings, it will be noted that a disc v110 is mounted upon that end of the layshaft 26 which is remote from thepressure roller cam 41.' The disc is provided with a pair of rollers111and 112, the roller 1111 being. mounted upon one side of the disc 110and in line with a trip arm 13, and the roller 112being mounted upon theother side of the disc 110 and in line with a return trip arm 114. Thetrip arrn113 and the return trip am 114 form a unitary structure Whichis pivotally mounted in the machine upon a spindle 114a (FIGURE 6) andpivotally connected to a link 115 which is in turn pivotally connectedat the other end thereof to one end of a lever 116 keyed or otherwisesecured to a spindle 117., An arm 118 is secured to the spindle 117 andis connected to a pivotally mounted knife blade 119 by means of a lengthof wire 120, the knife blade .119 being pivot-ally mounted at 120 uponan immovable or dead blade .121 which is mounted in any desired manner(a precise manner of mounting is not illustrated in FIGURE 6) on theticket pulp guide 37.,

It will be noted from FIGURE 6 that the pivot rod 48 of the crankedrocker arm 43 is provided, at the end thereof remote from the saidrocker arm, with an assembly which comprises essentially a roller 129which is madev from a hard but resilient material, such, for example, asrubber. The purpose of this roller 129 is, at

the appropriate times in the machine cycle, to press the pivotallymounted upon a spindle 142. The upper end of the said rocking arm 141carries a boss 143 which is adapted to be engaged at all times by a hookportion 144 of a link 145 which extends towards the front of the machnieand engages at 146 that part of the numerator 147 by which the totalrecorded by the numerator may be advanced by unity. The hook portion 144has one end of a spring 148 anchored thereto, the other end of thespring 148 being anchored on the pivot rod 88. Since the layshaft 26performs one revolution to every two revolutions of the printing headspindle 21, and since recordal of the issuance of a ticket upon thenumerator 147 is required only at some time during the second machinecycle (namely, during the second revolution of the printing head spindle21), the cam 140 with the track therein is so arranged on the layshaft26 that the arm 141 is rocked in a clockwise direction (FIGURE 2) aboutthe spindle 142 at the completion of the revolution of the layshaft 26.Thus, recordal of the issuance of a ticket on the numerator 147 takesplace only when printing of the whole ticket is complete and not wheneach half is printed.

In FIGURES 2 and 5, there is illustrated a test 'key selector unit 150which is provided with a hole 15-1 (FIGURE 5). When unity is added 'tothe amount recorded in the numerator 147, the link 145 moves towards thefront of the machine (FIGURE 5) and the front end of the link 145extends through the said hole 151. When, however, the test key (clearlyvisible in FIGURE 5) is depressed, the test key selector unit 150 islifted, the hole 151 in the said unit 150 is moved out of alignment withthe front end of the link 145 and consequently, when the time comes forthe said link 145 to be moved towards the front of the machine ashereinbefore explained, the front end of the link 145 will come intocontact with the raised selector unit 150 before the degree of forwardtravel of the said link 145 (normally resultant upon the seconddepression of a competitor key 75) has taken place. Arrest of the link145 in this manner prevents recordal upon the numerator 147, by theaddition of unity to the amount already recorded thereon, of theissuance of a Test ticket. However, it will be appreciated that theprinting of a Test ticket is performed in the same manner as is theprinting of, for example, a valid Doubles ticket, namely, in twoseparate printing phases and the initiation of these two separateprinting phases is achieved by depressing the test key twice insuccession.

The machine is provided with an inking device indicated generally at155, the said device comprising the same parts as, and being adjustabletowards and away from the print faces mounted upon the printing headspindle 21 in the same manner as have been fully illustrated anddescribed in the patent specifications referred to earlier (see FIGURE2).

The machine is also provided with a buzzer 160 and a light 161 (seeFIGURES 2 and 5 respectively), these devices being provided as the meansby which the machine operator is warned, after having depressed onecompetitor key 75 but before depression of another key or re-depressionof the same key, that only one half of a valid ticket has been printed.

The means by which the machine is locked in the event of such lockingbecoming necessary or for any reason desirable, comprises a solenoid 17of which the plunger 171 is pivotally connected at one end thereof to a.cam 172 which is pivotally mounted at 173. The cam 172 is arranged inconstant engagement with a lever 174 which is pivotally mounted at 175.The lever 174 is formed in such a manner that the surfaces of the twohalves thereof lie in planes which are normal to one another, the cam172 engaging an abutment roller depending from that half of the lever inwhich the pivot 175 is placed. When the solenoid 170 is energised, theplunger 171 is moved from left to right (as seen in FIGURE the cam 172 6is moved in an anti-clockwise direction about the pivot 173 .and thelever 174 is allowed to move in an anticlockwise direction about thepivot 175 under the influence of the spring hereinafter referred to withreference to FIGURE 3.

In FIGURE 3, there is illustrated a solenoid push rod which, when it ismoved from right to left, causes a latching unit 181 pivotally mountedat 182 to move in a clockwise direction about the said pivot 182. As a'result a step 183 formed in the latching unit 181 moves under'alaterally disposed boss 184 which extends through a hole in the sideplate, which is rigidly mounted upon and which moves with a key tube 185(FIGURE 2). The key tube 185, which extends completely across themachine, is provided with a slot 186 which is parallel to the axis ofthe said tube 185. The slot 186 is so disposed in its rest position(illustrated in FIGURE 2) that when any key 75 in the machine isdepressed the rearmost end 187 of the key shank enters the slot 186 androtates the tube 185 in an anti-clockwise direction as seen in FIG- URE2 with the result that, whilst any one key remains depressed, anyattempt to depress a second key 75 will be prevented both by the row ofballs 84 previously described and by the fact that the end 187 of theshank of the second key '75 abuts the tube 185 and cannot enter thedisplaced slot 186.

It will be appreciated, therefore, that, when the solenoid 170 isenergised with consequent clockwise movement of the latching unit 181about its pivot 182, depression of any key 75 will rotate the key tube185 in an anti-clockwise direction (FIGURE 2) and the boss 184 in aclockwise direction (FIGURE 3). This rotational movement of the boss 184is halted by the step 183 engaging the boss 184 and arresting the keytube 185. Thus, complete depression of any key 75 is prevented and theoperations of the machine tripped by complete key depression are notinitiated.

In FIGURE 3, a solenoid 190 is provided which is energised by means ofan impulse sent thereto from equip ment associated with a particularcontestant in a race which has been declared a legitimate non-runner.The solenoid 190 operates, inknown manner, to restore mechanism to itsrest position which has been temporarily displaced therefrom by keydepression.

In FIGURE 3 there is illustrated a contact plate 200 carrying a contact201, the plate 200 being mounted upon the layshaft 26 which, it will beremembered, rotates through 180 during the first machine cycle andstops.

Therefore, two contact arms 202, 203 are provided which carry contactsat the free ends thereof, the said contacts being located in the path oftravel of the moving contact 201 and 180 apart. A third arm 204 isprovided for a purpose hereinafter explained. The arm 202 prepares theelectrical. circuit for the transmission and subsequent storage ofintelligence relating to the first leg of the selected combination, thearm 203 prepares the electrical circuit for the transmission andsubsequent storage of intelligence relating to the second leg of theselected-combination and the arm 204 to be cancelled or destroyed.

Refening to FIGURE 5, a race change solenoid 210 is provided to themovable armature 211 of which there is secured a lever 212 which ispivotally mounted at 213. A lever 214 is secured to the lever 212 whichis capable of shifting to the left (as seen in FIGURE 5) a movablesleeve (not illustrated) to the other endof which there is secured alever 215. The lever 215 is provided with a toe at one end thereof(which is not illustrated) which is adapted at operative times to engagea star wheel (not illustrated) which is associated with the racenumbering head, and the lever 215 is provided at the other end thereofwith a spring 216 anchored thereto in any desired manner and also totheframework of the machine.

When the solenoid 210 is energised and when the printing head spindle 21is rotated, the race numbering head is rotated and the machine printsand issues a ticket relating to the new race.

Certain parts of the machine described above have not been described invery great detail since the mechanisms illustrated are well known to theperson skilled in the art and are incorporated in machines actually onsale at the present time.

Mention has been made in the above specification of electrical functionsinitiated by the operation of mechanical parts. Reference to co-pendingpatent application No. 232 of 1957 in the United Kingdom and toco-pending patent application Serial No. 705,180, filed December 26,

I 1957 in the United States of America should be made for such furtherdetails as may be essential to a complete iunderstanding of the completemachine.

The operation of the machine is as follows: It is assumed that themachine has been loaded with a reel of blank ticket pulp and the leadingedge of the said pulp is led by hand upwardly in the machine and intothe ticket pulp guide 37 and therein past the cut-away portions36 of thetwo knurled discs 34 and 35.

When an operating key 75 is depressed, the contacts 103 are made,thereby sending an impulse to the totalisator acceptance equipmentwhich, in accordance with standard operating procedure in totalisatorequipment and if the bet represented thereby is accepted, transmits areturn impulse to the ticket issuing machine. Such return impulseenergizes the solenoid 50 which causes the lever T51 to move downwardly(FIGURE 1) and thus releases the clutch trip plate 55. The clutchtripplate 55 rotates the spindle 56 in a clockwise direction (FIGURE 1)which therefore causm the knife switch 61 (FIGURE 3) to move downwardlyto short the two contacts 62 and 63 and start the motor 10. 1

As soon as the motor starts, the printing head spindle 1 21 is rotatedbecause the clutch sprocket and the associated sprocket wheel 20a aredriven by the motor through the gear train comprising pinion 14, gearwheel 15, pinion 16, gear wheel 17 and sprocket 1-8 and the drivingchain 19 and because the catch 74 on the arm 73, which is keyed to theprinting head spindle 21, has connected the said spindle 21 to the drivefrom-the motor 10 by engaging the sprocket 20a.-

Rotation of the printing head spindle 21 drives the layshaft 26 throughthe medium of the meshing gear wheels 24 and 25. 1

At the beginning of the machine cycle, the roller 111 .on the disc 110actuates the knife blade 119 to cause the said blade 119 in conjunctionwith the dead blade 120 (hereinafter referred to collectively as theguillotine) ,to cut the ticket to length. It will be understood that theticket pulp is fed upwardly towards the printing faces of the variousprinting cylinders, type wheels and the like (which have not beenspecifically described herein because of the full disclosure thereof inthe specifications hereinbefore referred to) by the knurled discs 34 and35 andthe ball races 39 and 40 which co-operate to grip the said ticketpulp and it will also be seen from FIGURES 2 and 6 that the knurleddiscs 34 and 35 are driven from the layshaft 26 by means of the pin 27on the gear wheel engaging the Geneva Wheel 28, the gear wheel 30 andthe pinions 31, 32 and 33. I

The severed length of ticket pulp is now engaged by the printing faceshereinbefore referred to. It should be made clear at this juncture thatthe gear wheel 25 is provided with twice the number of teeth as thatwith which the gear wheel 24 is provided. Therefore, the printing headspindle 21 will make two revolutions to each com plete' revolutionofthelayshaft 26 and this enables the ticket printing and issuing machineconstructed in accord- --ance with the present invention to print aticket in two separate stages, each stage being determinable inaccordance with depression, in a certain order, of particular keys orwith the depression of one key.

As soon as the severed length of ticket pulp is engaged as aforesaid,printing of the first half of'the ticket commences. With referenceparticularly to FIGURE 7, as-

suming the machine has been set so as to print Doubles tickets relatingto the tenth race and assuming that the operator depresses the keyrepresenting runner No. 8 to initiate the first machine cycle, theroller 42 on the rocker arm 43, being located on that high portion ofthe cam 41 between the portions 45 and 47 of reduced diameter as can beseen from the drawings, will initially press the ticket pulp against theprinting faces 129 to print .DOU-

BLES RACE. Thereafter, the roller 42 falls on to the portion 47 of thecam 41 to ensure that the word AND is not printed, rides on to the highportion of the cam 41 between portions: 47, 46 to print the first legnumber, No., and thereafter falls on to the portion 46 and remainsthere. Thus, the ticket pulp has been so far printed as to read in totaland in accordance with the assumed facts:

ROUBLES RACE TENTH NO. 8

' When the printing head spindle 21 and the printing faces 130 mountedthereon come to rest at the end of the first machine cycle the cam 41(FIGURES 1 and 6) will have been rotated through When the operatordepresses another key 75 representing the second leg of the doublescombination, a further machine cycle is initiated as hereinbeforedescribed. Let it be assumed that the operator depresses the keyrepresenting runner No. 24. The printing head spindle 21 rotates but,owing to the fact that the roller 42 of the rocker arm 43 is still inengagement with the portion 46 of the reduced diameter of the cam 41 thematter previ- The complete printed ticket is then fed upwardly in themachine by the delivery roller and ejected. Ejection or issue of thecomplete printed ticket takes place during the last 20 (approximately)of rotation of the cam 41 during the second machine cycle about its axis(see FIGURE 7). From previous description it will be obvious that, whenthe roller 42 falls on to portion 45 of the said cam, the roller i129will he moved away from the position in which the said roller pressesthe ticket pulp against the printing faces 130. When the roller 129 isthus moved the completely printed, ticket willfall against an ejectionroller (illustrated but not labelled) which is being driven by springbelting (also illustrated but not labelled) and the ticket is flicked bythe ejection roller out of the machine so as to lie upon the top plateof the machine. This method of ticket ejection is well known in the artand will not, therefore, be further described.

It will be appreciated that once only during each revolution of the gearwheel 25 will the pin 27 engage the Geneva wheel 28. This happens in thelatter part of the second machine cycle (during approximately the lastone-eighth of the second machine cycle) and ensures that fresh ticketpulp is fed upwardly in the ticket pulp guide 37, but not severed by theguillotine, only when the upper part of the guide 37 is cleared orsubstantially cleared of the ticket just printed or being printed.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States is:

.1, A ticket printing and issuing machine comprising means for feeding aticket strip, a printing device settable to a plurality of alternativeprinting positions, printing cycle governing means the position of whichdetermines when said ticket strip receives a printing impression fromsaid printing device, driving means of which the drive is transmitted toboth the printing device and the printing cycle governing means, thesaid printing cycle governing means being driven at one half of thespeed at which the printing device is driven, and a set of keys eachoperable both to set the printing device to a particular printingposition and to initiate a machine cycle, depression of a first keysetting the printing device to a particular printing position andinitiating a first machine cycle to effect printing of certain data onsaid ticket strip as determined by said first key and by said printingcycle governing means, depression of a second key setting the printingdevice to a second particular printing position and initiating a secondmachine cycle to effect printing of certain other data on said ticketstrip as determined by said second key and by said printing cyclegoverning means.

2. A ticket printing and issuing machine as claimed in claim 1, whereinthe printing device is mounted upon a spindle and wherein the printingcycle governing means is mounted upon a shaft, the drive from thedriving means being transmitted to the spindle and in turn to the shaft,the arrangement being such that when the spindle has completed onerevolution the shaft has completed one half of a revolution.

3. A ticket printing and issuing machine as claimed in claim 2, whereinthe printing cycle governing means comprises a cam mounted upon the saidshaft, and a pivot rod at one end of which is carried a cam follower andat the other end of which is carried a roller; the ram being providedwith high portions and low portions and the arrangement being such thatwhen the cam follower is riding upon a high portion of the cam theprinting device causes a printing impression to be made upon the ticketstrip and that when the cam follower is riding upon a low portion of thecam the ticket strip is located in a position outside the surface ofrevolution generated by the printing device.

4. A ticket printing and issuing machine adapted to perform two separatemachine cycles in order to print and issue a single ticket, whichcomprises a printing device, a single set of dep-ressible keys eachoperable to set the printing device to a particular printing positionand to initiate a machine cycle, printing cycle governing means, drivingmeans of which the drive is transmitted to the printing device and tothe printing cycle governing means, the printing device performing twosuccessive revolutions as a result of two successive key depressions foreach revolution performed by the printing cycle governing means andprinting a different part of a single ticket strip in each of said twosuccessive revolutions, the said printing cycle governing meansdetermining the dispositon of printed matter printed on said ticketstrip by the printing device during a single revolution of said printingcycle governing means and causing issue of the ticket printed, and meansfor registering the total number of tickets printed by the printingdevice.

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